<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; position: relative; z-index: 0; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.redding.com/news/2012/jun/24/paul-r-houser-dam-removal-holds-risks/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Paul R. Houser: Dam removal holds risks, uncertainties</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; ">Paul R. Houser, Redding Record Searchlight</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: windowtext; "><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">After I questioned the accuracy of science reporting and summary documents related to the Klamath Secretarial Decision, I faced systematic reprisal and my job as the Bureau of Reclamation's science advisor was terminated. Subsequently, I filed a scientific integrity allegation, and was invited to speak publicly about it in May. I was confronted with a very wide range of questions, where I carefully offered my opinion or relevant information. Dennis Lynch of the U.S. Geological Survey recently questioned some of this information ("<a href="http://www.redding.com/news/2012/jun/11/dennis-lynch-klamath-science-process-is-solid/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Klamath science process is solid</span></a>," June 11). Below I summarize the rationale for my comments, and offer some additional perspective. (Full text available at <a href="http://prhouser.com/houser/?p=830" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">prhouser.com/houser/?p=830</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.redding.com/news/2012/jun/24/patrick-higgins-settlements-sidestep-klamaths/?partner=RSS" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Patrick Higgins: Settlements sidestep Klamath's real problems</a><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Patrick Higgins, Redding Record Searchlight<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">The June 11 "Speak Your Piece," "<a href="http://www.redding.com/news/2012/jun/11/dennis-lynch-klamath-science-process-is-solid/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; ">Klamath science process is solid</span></a>" by lead federal scientist Dennis Lynch, was almost pure Orwellian double-speak, which is the hallmark of the entire Klamath dam removal environmental review process. Lynch discredited arguments against dam removal recently advanced by whistle-blower Paul Houser, but did not refute Houser's original allegations of the program's misrepresentation of science.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div></body></html>